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Topic: gparted isn't formatting entirely

gparted is pissing me off really badly. I have 105GB of unpartitioned space on my 250GB SATA harddrive. I'm using the gparted livecd to format that unpartitioned space to NTFS.

All seems fine at first. I boot into the disc, I set it to create a 105GB NTFS partition. In the preview, it shows that I'll have a 105GB NTFS partition and that the unpartitioned space is now gone, then I hit Apply and it slaps me the face and gives me a 128MB NTFS partition and 104GB of unpartitioned space. WHAT THE HECK IS WITH THAT??

I've tried a bunch of times now and this keeps happening. I don't want to ruin my harddrive by trying anymore. PLEASE give me a solution to this problem.

My harddrive's layout:

/dev/hdc1 fat32 200MB (Darwin OSX86 bootloader)
/dev/dhc2 hfs+ 127GB (Kalyway Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard "Hackintosh")
unallocated 105GB

As you can see, I have a hackintosh. I want to set this harddrive up to dual-boot Mac OS X and Windows XP. I just need to format ALL of that 105GB space to NTFS and this'll be easy for me to setup.

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Re: gparted isn't formatting entirely

Unbelievable! Now I can't get the bootloader to come up. Gparted has just screwed me over. I can't get into OS X now..

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Re: gparted isn't formatting entirely

I think the xp installer can format the unallocated space and install xp there.
But, are you sure that you choose the unallocated space to work? I never read any report on choosing a partition and formatting another.
Can you give the *actual* state of the hard drive, please?

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